It goes to 41M due to me including the fighter/bombers in the costs. Not sure if they count towards that or not.
Doable. Though Sisters generally don't expect to deploy in that type of terrain.
Strike craft and ordnance do not.
Hmm. In that case, either swap a Mechanized Infantry Attachment for the Sisters, or attach them to one of the Shield Armies instead of Powered Exoskeletons, since they'd probably be pretty good at helping the Shield Armies in that role.
I'd say replace the Combat Exoskeletons with Sisters of Battle for the Shield Army (maybe rename it Holy Shield Army.) They can also provide force concentration, and the stated Morale + Dueling boost they give would be really useful for the sort of forcing open/holding a breach job that they'll find themselves in.
I haven't seen anyone else discuss the matter but I figure it should at least be noted. Both in what it says about the Trator's overall strategy, how it'll affect our situation, and what - or if anything - we should do about it.
Probably gonna need to up our number of patrol ships sooner rather than later. Depending on its loadout, Escort Carriers loaded with Saviors might be useful there.
Cool. A question about the overall plan, what do you see as being our reinforcements to the Honman Front (or whatever else we need to dedicate ground forces to)? The Assault Armies seem good for that, but what other forces are we going to be mobilizing as reinforcements or freeing up for redeployment?
Well, we know that they had at least some Baneblades, so they have Superheavy attachments on the armies we've seen, most likely in only one or two but possibly in more.
Well if we're going by the 'canon' Chaos raider vessels in BFGA, we're looking at missile pods and a lance or torpedo. And it's not that surprising that Traitor forces are starting to up-gun considering our semi-military and true military (heavy frigate) vessels making rather loud splashes.
So, should this be something we do now, or put off 'till later? My understanding of the situation is that they're trying to hamstring our offensive by raiding unprotected targets and harassing our logistics train. Presumably speaking, the Traitors are doing this because they're not confident enough in just attacking our main fleet, or there's some reason they don't want to commit - probably the orcs attacking elsewhere or none of them trusting each other enough to cooperate.
Five Mechanized Infantry, two Armored, one Aerial, one Aerial Infantry, and an "Elite" Mechanized Infantry backed by heavy artillery, mechanized cavalry, and Baneblades (they liked to show off, so you know their composition better). Friendly forces are unsure if these are "proper" Baneblades or the "diluted" versions Forge Worlds will put out to mimic Baneblades.
Indeed. Little has been able to compete with even your AMMs in a straight fight, made worse by their tendency to go in pairs. Incleon wishes to capitalize on this, and Freebootas have started trickling into the region from outside.
Our current Patrol Squadrons should be sufficient for now, especially if the raiders are just going out by themselves. But yes, in the following turns we'll want to increase our coverage.
That is one way. You could also Design a Hull with two Engine slots or is built to take a bonus to straight line speed. Or Design a Q-Ship Hull.
Huh, I hadn't realized the local Traitors needed the Hive World so badly. I suppose it's a natural consequence of their high-attrition strategies - while effective, it does require them to have a constant stream of manpower, which we've so kindly stripped from them. I'm sure it's not the only hive world they have access to, but I'll still take the win.
Sounds roughly right. It is bulky, with rigid surface "plates", but that's because you really don't want to take damage in space.
I meant looting your ships for sacrifices, slaves, manufactured goods, and the hull, but I suppose there is that as well.
Oh, you're referring to just making more of our current escorts, and even if they'd fail to get kills, it'd still seriously inconvenience our foe. That makes more sense.
Actually, looking at the mechanical results of the preserver suit, it actually doesn't fulfill the function I'd envisioned for it. The idea was to have a standard armor system for infantry that would render all our infantry armies into being proofed against environmental hazards, with the ability to scale up the protection to the levels needed to fight in space. Unless I've just completely missed that in the update.
Speaking in the long term I'd like to start refitting the AMMs we're currently using as patrol ships into my new Modernized Escort Carrier schematic, because the combination of fighter bombers, an actual macrocannon battery (the big benefit there is the range increase, at least in my opinion), and actual defenses should make them far superior convoy guards then they are now.
Just accounting for the new built forces in my plan, under the assumption that most of our current forces are going to stay where they are, I'm honestly likely to leave the shrine world detachment as is groundside in return for giving it the first support squad to apply orbital nukage to any problematic ork areas. Because I think we need to go into a holding pattern somewhere, at least until we get more armies out, and suppressing the orks there instead of invading them seems the easiest place to do it.
No, Linty is referring to our current patrol squadrons, which are putting a damper in piracy as is. By shooting any pirates that attack their convoys. More ships will make that work better, but we're already doing that to them.
Ah. Okay. Still, so long as you have a body suit capable of repelling the surroundings you can put the helmet on and survive like that. I'd peg it as +2M for any Infantry Army cost, Foot/Motor/Mech.
Huh, I thought the new raider was specifically designed as a reaction to our escorts, which are putting a damper on their piracy. Hence us needing to step up our escort game to counter them stepping up their piracy game - unless I'm misinterpreting this all, of course.
And half the time they don't even get a sealed helmet to deal with environmental hazards they might encounter.
